Thursday, May 29, 2014

Scapegoat

We are about to toss Secretary Shinseki under the bus. Well done.
Problem solved – done and dusted as the Brits would say. Righteous politicians slithering on their
bellies, pandering to this group or that, have called for his head. The media drooling at the prospect of a
public flogging can’t stop counting down the minutes and seconds.

Never mind the obstructionism in the most dysfunctional
Congress in history – Shinseki is on thin ice.
Never mind the blatant indifference to reports from the VA Inspector
General and countless Veterans groups over the years about veterans being
denied care or waiting unacceptable periods of time – Shinseki is on thin
ice. Never mind the insipid self
satisfaction of a media that reported on none of this with any integrity
because they were too busy peddling their own political views as fact or
following the trial of some hump in South Africa who offed his girlfriend and
would have never made the news if he hadn’t been an athlete – Shinseki is on
thin ice.

Now we can all go back to sleep, business as usual. Back to pissing on each other shoes in the
Capital while the veterans drown in urine; back to snickering privately at the
prospect of using this tragedy to leverage more privatization while ignoring
the fact that some vets are stating publicly that their own members of Congress
ignored them as effectively as everyone else had; back to reporting on
celebrities doing just about anything.

Yeah it is all okay, all right, just fine because we have a
scapegoat. Shinseki is on thin ice.

If I were Secretary Shinseki I would tell President Obama to
shove his job in which ever orifice would accommodate it. I would tell this ungrateful nation to wake
up, grow up, sober up; never mind staring at the idiot box and living
vicariously through the sports team of your choice. Pay some attention to the people you send to
Washington. Pay attention to the
nightmare they are creating – it is your nightmare. Never mind God, the Almighty doesn't live in
Washington and never has. Never mind
looking to the influence peddlers you hire to lead this country for a moral
conscience – might as well look to Jack the Ripper to run a battered women’s
shelter. Never mind allowing the Rush
Limbaughs, Sean Hannitys, Sarah Palins, Chuck Todds, David Gregorys and Joe
Scarboroughs to define your reality – get off your ass and define it yourself. No one is responsible for doing your thinking
but you. I take full responsibility for
any mistakes I have made; you do the same.

That is what I would do, but then as Betty Davis once said, “I
am a mean nasty bitch, and I am good at it.”